May 8 2009'Whatever Works' Trailer (This Isn't What Works)
Woody Allen and Larry David, over the years, the two of you have thoroughly entertained me while making me more comfortable about being a neurotic, misanthropic freak than I should be, and for that I am grateful. But this collaboration of yours, Whatever Works. I don't know about this. I really want to like it, but I also don't particularly want to to see a comedy full of obvious shots at stupid, religious zealot Southerners paired with gay jokes from the Bruce Vilanch catalog, which appears to be what the two of you have made:
I think we can all agree the best part of that trailer was that Larry David has now joined the Zack Morris/Ferris Bueller club of deliberate fourth-wall breakers.
Reader Comments
1. MFS - May 8, 2009 6:08 PM
Hey. That looks funny!
2. Joe - May 8, 2009 6:42 PM
Okay, I am a big Larry David fan (not so much Woody "Chester" Allen. This looks like....like...how do the kids say it? Ah yes, epic fail.
Improv, loose script, L.D. rocks. Scripted and kvetching per the direction of Woody Allen? Pathetic.
Ed Begley Jr. needs to stick with "Pineapple Express" type roles.
3. eric - May 9, 2009 3:19 AM
I thought it was pretty funny.
Uh oh. I'm going against the echelon of pop culture opinion. FUCK!
4. Zach - May 9, 2009 4:31 AM
I've got to agree with Eric here, I thought it looked pretty funny.
5. nene - May 9, 2009 3:38 PM
well finally a woody allen movie i want to see (hasn't happened since "deconstructing harry", 12 years ago!)
i agree with joe on the larry david part (he does work better with a loose script), but i also agree with eric and zach, it looks funny. i hated evan rachel wood on "the wrestler" - typical teenage wreck - but i think she's pretty good working the southern accent. lol. i know that does not make an actor good, but.. it works for her.
anyway, i love woody, larry and patricia. i hope i like the movie.
6. Charlie Caligula - May 9, 2009 10:42 PM
It could have been way worse, but the reservations are understood.
7. frank - May 10, 2009 1:50 AM
"I'm dying... not now, eventually!" was classic Woody, so I'm hopeful.
8. digitaldish - May 10, 2009 1:46 PM
I like Larry David from the Seinfeld shows; but lately his stuff to me anyhow isn't funny anymore.
9. jaime - May 10, 2009 11:24 PM
larry acted exactly like woody there!
10. NastyBedazzler - May 10, 2009 11:41 PM
Yeah that does look funny, actually.
I don't care (at all) for Woody Allen though. Larry David is usually a good bet.
11. Patty - May 11, 2009 11:03 AM
Just a big meh.
12. Jackie - May 11, 2009 1:28 PM
Dude, Bruce Vilanch reference FTW.
13. michael - May 13, 2009 3:34 PM
You can definitely tell it's a Woody Allen film, but it looks good. I can't see Nicole Kidman adding any sort of comic relief to the brillance of Curb Your Enthusiasm anyways. Larry David is legend.
14. Jimmy Jim - May 13, 2009 9:03 PM
woody's movies really are out of style, and no one seems to have let him know that.